Hey, this is Stephen Fertake. I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our

podcast. I wanted to thank you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you.

Hope it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to see God is moving in your life,

enjoy the message.

Because life will label you by what you did.

And the Bible gives us a little pea only John tells us to us because John had the

sensitivity to him when you read his gospel he tells you things other people

don't mention he said now Thomas also known as Didymus. I mean if we've just got a label Thomas a

doubter can we at least call him doubting Didymus because the alliteration

works much better.

Doubting Didymus.

The Bible says that,

Doubting did he,

one of the 12, was not with. Somebody say, he wasn't there.

So now Jesus and Thomas got something in common.

When they went to look for Jesus dead body, he wasn't there.

When Jesus showed up alive and resurrected, Thomas wasn't there.

And Thomas wasn't there. The Bible doesn't say why he wasn't there.

I've always heard it preached like he wasn't there because he didn't have enough faith to be there.

But the boys inside had the doors locked.

They weren't any better.

So if we're going to give out nicknames, let's talk about Simon Peter

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